Monday, 11 May 2009

the oxygen of publicity

is rather a tired phrase maybe, but it is what the latest idiotic pronouncement from Mr Salter and Zim One Lovelock, dutifully copied out by His Master's Voice, has given to the BNP. If you don't believe me read the comments - and those are just the ones His Master's Voice has let through. Its message is, if you don't vote Labour you are voting BNP - and that message legitimises a vote for the BNP, which of course is a legally constituted political party, which as one of the comments on the HMV story says is far left not far right. Mr Salter has form on this, and gets strangely over-excited at any mention of the BNP. I lived in lower Caversham in 1996-99, which at the time, and I think still, was a mainly white, mainly working-class, largely elderly area. A youngish bloke who lived around there used regularly to put pro-BNP stickers on lampposts. Whenever I saw them I took them off; it was just one bloke, the BNP never stood for the council in that ward and would have got no support if they had. However, the cerebrally-challenged then-councillor Steve Waite saw a sticker and excitedly informed Mr Salter, who rushed into Reading East (actually he rarely leaves the place) and did photocalls helpfully pointing out the stickers in case anyone had missed them. Mr Salter is the best publicist the BNP has ever had in Reading.

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Srikes me that the BNP are clearly scaring the hell out of the likes of Salter and company - no doubt the latest revelations concerning the theft of OUR money by MP's and Peers of ALL parties at Westminster,will help boost their chances of success in the Euro Elections on June 4,as Labours own Immigration Minister recently admitted was 'inevitable'.

The substantive point here is WHY are BNP attracting such interest and support,especially in the Midlands,North- West,Essex and Yorkshire too - much of the culpability for the present situation can be laid at the door of the Labour Leadership,who have for years arrogantly and very foolishly believed that the White Working Class vote was simply theirs by right - how wrong they were.

Are you sure it was not Salter or one of his cronies you saw posting BNP stickers in Caversham back then,sounds like his M.O. to me,BTW I was up in Yorkshire over the Weekend and saw plenty of them on displayed on cars and in windows,so looks like they caught on!!

Agreed , The BNP must love Martin-----but the real problem here is that the BNP are fueled by the fact that the big 3 parties refuse to deal with the immigration issue, so leaving a massive void for the BNP to fill.Immigration must be curbed and to ignore the issue is to play into the hands of the BNP.I would suggest that the number of people entering the UK should be limited to no more than the number of people leaving. That way the population would not grow by much, and issues such as pressure on housing would not be so great.The UK is, after all, now the most densely populated country in Europe,there has to come a point where we are simply full!!

Ref Lord Tebbit's comments - this presents David Cameron with a really massive opportunity to demonstrate how he's changed the Conservative Party by withdrawing the Tory whip from Tebbit - though I doubt he will have the bottle to do it,and it could well backfire spectacularly as the old boy is still well liked and respected in Conservative Associations - so maybe not on yer bike Norm yet,we shall see.

Cameron has however demonstrated some firm leadership over the ongoing expenses scandals - more than can be said for Brown - how about firing that annoying little woman Blears for a start - clearly one of the most irritating MP's to pop up on TV regularly.